Kona Premium Coffee is made of several high quality coffee grade: Kona Premium's Estate Roast is made of four of the highest grades of Fancy Kona beans and Kona Premium's Private Reserve Roast is made of the Highest grade of Fancy coffee beans mixed with peaberry beans for a smooth Kona taste.

Kona Premium is the Kona District's premiere coffee company. The estate
is located on the slopes of an active volcano, Mount Hualalai.

Kona Coffees
have built a reputation as the world's highest quality. Using age-old
processes dating back centuries and incorporating the latest in state
of the art technology, Kona Premium consistently delivers a superior
coffee with an unforgettable, mellow flavor.

Continuous soil
testing is performed to insure that every generation of Kona Premium
Estate Coffee grows in a soil mixture with an optimum nutrient composition.

Harvesting

Unlike
most conventional coffees, which are made from beans mass-harvested
at varying levels of ripeness, each bean of Kona Premium Estate
Coffee is individually hand-picked.

Only beans
that meet Kona Premium's rigid standards of ripeness and quality
are harvested - each ripe bean remaining in prime condition for
only a few days.

Processing

With conventional
coffee processing, after the skins are removed from the harvested coffee
beans by a process called pulping, the beans are soaked in water for
many hours in a step called "fermentation" . This often results
in an inconsistent fermentation process that has a negative effect on
the taste of the coffee as well as involving a large consumption and
contamination of water.

Kona
Premium uses a revolutionary technology based upon waterless pulping.
Not only does this produce the highest quality and consistent coffee
taste, but in addition, helps the environment by lessening usage
and contamination of our water supply.

Drying

Most coffee worldwide is dried in the sun - an unpredictable method
that can take from 5 days to 3 weeks, introduce molds and mildews, and
have other negative effects on the quality and flavor of the coffee.

Increasingly,
"better" quality coffees are being dried mechanically - producing
a more consistent product but in some cases overcooking or contaminating
the beans.

Kona Premium
uses a new and very advanced combination drying method to insure quality
and enhance flavor. Kona Premium coffee beans are initially dried in
the sun to take advantage of the chemical processes present in this
drying technique. The beans are then carefully "finish dried"
using low temperature dehydration. This two part drying method insures
perfect consistency and retention of quality.

Aging

After the
drying process is complete, most conventional coffee growers hull
and polish their beans and go directly to roasting.

However,
one of the most significant enhancements to the flavor of Kona
Premium coffee is achieved by aging the Kona beans in climate-controlled
storage for one full year. This aging process gives Kona Premium
Estate coffee a wonderful, mellow, rich taste.

Roasting

Kona Premium's
roasting technique is very important to the coffee's flavor and
utilizes a hot air fluid bed roaster. This roasting method is
new to the coffee industry and offers several advantages over
traditional coffee roasting techniques.

Unlike
traditional roasting techniques, fluid bed roasting, in which
the beans are bathed in hot flowing air, provides uniform amounts
of heat to each bean. And, by the nature of the flowing air, contaminants
such as smoke, dust, and burning oils are cleanly removed as they
are produced, enhancing the quality of the roast and insuring
a great tasting coffee.

Kona Premium
offers only the highest grades of coffee. An estate roast that combines
the full range of flavors from the harvest, and the Private Reserve
Roast that combines only the very largest beans with Peaberry Beans
to produce a truly special flavor. Both of these grades are roasted
at a "Medium Dark" temperature that is best suited for Kona
Coffee.

Delivery

Coffee
is best consumed as soon after roasting as possible, in that continued
exposure to oxygen will begin the staling process. Therefore,
Kona Premium Estate Coffee is always roasted specifically to meet
order demand; packaged immediately after roasting in specially
designed bags that prevent introduction of oxygen and moisture,
and then rushed to the customer so it can be perfectly fresh when
it's finally poured in your cup!

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